CIO Leadership: World-Class Technology Leaders to Discuss Fostering the Data-Driven Organization to Propel the Business Forward at HMG Strategy’s Upcoming 2020 HMG Live! Washington, D.C. CIO Executive Leadership Summit

WESTPORT, Conn., Oct. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HMG Strategy, the world's #1 digital platform for connecting technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world, is bringing its unique peer-driven content and powerful research agenda to its upcoming 2020 HMG Live! Washington, D.C. CIO Executive Leadership Summit on October 6. HMG Strategy’s digital CIO and CISO summits explore the most critical leadership, strategic, and career ascent challenges and opportunities faced by technology executives today.

“With incredible opportunities in front of them to help reimagine and reinvent the business with the CEO and the executive team, there’s never been a better time to be a technology leader,” says Hunter Muller, President and CEO of HMG Strategy. “Now more than ever, CIOs and tech executives are being called upon to help the CEO and line-of-business leaders to identify and execute on opportunities to create new business models and disrupt the business in a time of radical change.”

On October 6, HMG Strategy will be hosting the 2020 HMG Live! Washington, D.C. CIO Executive Leadership Summit. Prominent technology executives speaking at the event will include:

• Bharat Amin, Executive Vice President, CIO, Huntington Ingalls Industries
• Snehal Antani, Co-Founder, CEO, Horizon3.ai
• Keith Bluestein, CIO, U.S. Small Business Administration
• David Bray, Inaugural Director, Global GeoTech Center & Commission, Atlantic Council
• Hari Candadai, GVP, Global Thought Leadership and Research, Rimini Street
• Susan Certoma, Board Director/Executive Leader/Strategic Advisor, Point2Point
• Jamie Holcombe, CIO, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Mike Huthwaite, Founder, CIO at Large, Huthwaite & Associates
• Georgette Kiser, Operating Executive, The Carlyle Group
• James Parks, Director, Product Strategy & Transformation, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
• Kshemendra Paul, Executive Director, Data Governance and Analytics, Chief Data Officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Phil Richards, CSO, Ivanti
• Carlos Rivero, Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia
• Denise Russell Fleming, VP IT, BDS, The Boeing Company
• Serena Sacks, General Manager Customer Success, US Education, Microsoft
• Prabhash Shrestha, Group Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Strategy Officer, ICBA
• Dee Waddell, Managing Director, Travel and Transportation Industries, IBM Corporation
  

Partners for the 2020 HMG Live! Washington, D.C. CIO Executive Leadership Summit include Ivanti, Rimini Street, and SIM Capital Area.

HMG Strategy will also be recognizing high-profile CIOs and technology executives for their achievements in demonstrating courageous leadership in areas such as innovation, business transformation, talent development and digital disruption at the 2020 HMG Live! Washington, D.C. CIO Executive Leadership Summit. Finalists for the HMG Strategy 2020 Global Technology Executives Who Matter Awards include:

• David Bray, Inaugural Director, Global GeoTech Center & Commission, Atlantic Council
• Kshemendra Paul, Executive Director, Data Governance and Analytics, Chief Data Officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Serena Sacks, General Manager Customer Success – US Education, Microsoft
• Kevin Wixted, CISO, DLA Piper
  

To learn more about the 2020 HMG Live! Washington, D.C. CIO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.

• Paul Bellack, Global CIO, Magna International
• Coley Burke, CRO, Zerto
• Mamatha Chamarthi, CIO, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
• Mark Cybulski, VP IT, Enterprise Business & Engineering Systems, BorgWarner
• Greggory Garrett, CEO, Managing Director, CGS Advisors LLC
• Monti Knode, Director of Customer Success, Horizon3.ai
• Jordan LaFramboise, Director, Innovation & Wizardry, Rock Central
• Lesley Ma, CIO, Chief Continuous Improvement Officer, NSF International
• Craig Mackereth, GVP Global Support, Rimini Street
• Ellen Sundra, VP, Global Systems Engineering, Forescout
• J.R. Tietsort, CISO, Darktrace
• Lori Tirpak, Interim CIO, Oakland University
• Jason Torrez, Sr. Director, Software Engineering & Site Leader, GE Detroit Technology Center, GE Aviation
• Diana Verdun, SPHR, Director of Human Resources, Plante Moran
  

Partners for the 2020 HMG Live! Detroit CIO Executive Leadership Summit include Darktrace, Ivanti, NPower, Rimini Street, SIM Detroit, and Zerto.

HMG Strategy will also be recognizing high-profile CIOs and technology executives for their achievements in demonstrating courageous leadership in areas such as innovation, business transformation, talent development and digital disruption at the 2020 HMG Live! Detroit CIO Executive Leadership Summit. Finalists for the HMG Strategy 2020 Global Technology Executives Who Matter Awards include:

• Rich Armor, CISO, General Motors
• Tim Bengson, VP, Global CISO, Kellogg Company
• Lesley Ma, VP, Chief Information and Continuous Improvement Officer, NSF International
• Vijay Sankaran, CIO, TD Ameritrade
• Kevin Vasconi, EVP & CIO, Domino’s Pizza
  

To learn more about the 2020 HMG Live! Detroit CIO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.

HMG Strategy will be hosting its 2020 HMG Live! New Jersey CIO Executive Leadership Summit on October 14. Leading technology executives speaking at this event will include:

• Maury Cupitt, VP, Solutions Architect, Sonatype
• Candace Fleming, VP and CIO, Information Technology, Montclair State University
• Clark Golestani, Managing Director, Advisor, Investor, Board Member, C Sensei Group LLC
• Dutt Kalluri, SVP Office of CIO/SVP Global Technology, Broadridge
• Christina ‘CK’ Kerley, Speaker, Futurist, Author, Strategist, allthingsCK
• Justin Lahullier, CIO, Delta Dental of New Jersey
• Vipul Nagrath, Global CIO, ADP
• Shola Oyewole, VP Digital Innovation, United Therapeutics
• Joseph Puglisi, VP IT, Nice-Pak Products, Inc.
• Mark Sander, Managing Partner, MFS Solutions LLC

Partners for the 2020 HMG Live! New Jersey CIO Executive Leadership Summit include OutSystems, Sonatype, and SIM New Jersey.

To learn more about the 2020 HMG Live! New Jersey CIO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.

On October 15, HMG Strategy will be hosting its 2020 HMG Live! Charlotte CIO Executive Leadership Summit. Distinguished technology leaders speaking at this event will include:

• Becky Fox, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, Atrium Health
• Naveed Husain, Vice President, Vertical Programs, RingCentral
• Michael LaVallee, Managing Partner, Jobplex
• Michael Piacente, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Hitch Partners
• David Politis, Founder and CEO, BetterCloud
• John Rossman, Managing Partner, Rossman Partners
• Swamy Sriperumbudur, CIO/COO, Infomerica Inc.
• Patrick Thompson, CIO, Albemarle Corporation

Strategic Partners for the 2020 HMG Live! Charlotte CIO Executive Leadership Summit include BetterCloud, RingCentral, the SIM Charlotte Region Chapter, the Charlotte Area Technology Cooperative, and the North Carolina Technology Association.

To learn more about the 2020 HMG Live! Charlotte CIO Executive Leadership Summit and to register for the event, click here.

To view HMG Strategy’s full lineup of upcoming summits, click here.

HMG Strategy has also received exceptional interest in its webinars through the strength of the 400,000+ technology executives in its community and the quality of the content it delivers. HMG Strategy has scheduled multiple 30-to-60-minute webinars over the next two months with an arsenal of innovative technology companies such as Citrix, Darktrace, HCL Technologies, Ivanti, Moveworks, Okta, OutSystems, PagerDuty, RangeForce, RingCentral, UiPath, Zoom and Zscaler.

HMG Strategy will be hosting its next webinar with Okta on October 13 at 1 p.m. ET, entitled ‘Modern Identity: Unifying Identity to Improve the User Experience Across Your Ecosystem.’ This event, which will feature Jake Randall, VP CIAM and Workflows at Okta, Jonathan Edwards, Vice President of Business Strategy & Consulting at SecureITsource and Kyle Weckman, VP, Security Services, Security Operations Programs at Options Clearing Corporation, will focus on how the lines between customers and workers are blurring and reveal how modern organizations are consolidating and simplifying identity structures to provide all users the information they need, where and when they need it. In this event, learn how to better identify each customer - and their history with the company - while providing employees with the access rights needed to deliver a fluid customer experience.

To learn more about this webinar and to register for the event, click here.

Click here to view HMG Strategy’s complete calendar of upcoming webinars.

Connecting Enterprise Technology Buyers with the Right Vendors

In the absence of large, national conferences or trade shows, CIOs and technology executives are seeking new ways to connect with their peers and find new business partners to help them drive innovation that can enable their companies to survive and grow.

Meanwhile, sales and marketing professionals at enterprise technology companies are looking for successful ways to engage with senior technology leaders and target accounts. HMG Strategy has harmonized these interests by creating the HMG Marketplace.

HMG Strategy’s high-powered Marketplace transforms the time-consuming request-for-information (RFI) process for CIOs and other technology buyers. Now, technology buyers can indicate the types of technologies and services they’re currently interested in and be matched with a prospective provider to make the connection.

“The HMG Marketplace essentially serves as a reference center to connect the right technology buyers with the right technology providers at the right time,” said Hunter Muller, President and CEO of HMG Strategy. “By filling out a short needs assessment survey, CIO, CTOs and other technology executives are connected with executive leaders and subject matter experts from technology companies to have focused, relevant discussions.”

Charter members that are actively participating in the HMG Marketplace include Appian, Aryaka, Awake Security, Darktrace, Forescout Technologies, Globant, Obsidian Security, PagerDuty, Sonatype, Tanium and Tessian.

“It’s challenging for all of us that we can’t all be together at these events,” says Nicole Eagan, Chief Strategy & AI Officer at Darktrace. “But the next best thing is being able to connect through the Marketplace. We’re committed that you won’t be meeting with a salesperson – you’ll be meeting with myself and the Darktrace executive team. You’ve got CIOs and CISOs who will attend these meetings and we would love the opportunity to catch up and strategize together.”

How it Works

After attending an HMG Strategy Executive Leadership Summit, an attendee is redirected to the HMG Marketplace where they are prompted to fill out a short needs analysis survey to indicate their current technology needs. From there, an HMG Strategy customer relationship specialist evaluates the survey information and schedules a meeting between the technology buyer and the most suitable technology partner in the Marketplace based on the buyer’s interests.

While in the Marketplace, the technology buyer is presented with a menu of options to choose from, including an option to view customer testimonials for that vendor and the business problem that was addressed. Sponsor partners receive highly qualified leads because of the strength of relationships inherent in the HMG network combined with the specific technology or service interest indicated by the buyer.

The HMG Marketplace offers multiple benefits to both technology buyers and vendors:

• Precision matching of buyer needs with vendor capabilities
• Accelerates the sales process for both buyers and sellers - Buyers and sellers quickly identify one another through the needs analysis process and associated reference materials
• Ensures Quality Discussions – CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and other technology buyers are qualified based on their true interest and by a set of characteristics (size, industry, types of technology/service interests, spend parameters, etc.). Buyers are paired with technology suppliers based on their domains and areas of expertise to avoid wasting time
• Drives Higher Conversion and Close Rates for Providers –The HMG Marketplace accelerates high-quality deal flow in challenging times and enables technology providers to lower their customer acquisition costs

To learn more about the HMG Marketplace and explore the digital assets that are available there, click here.

About HMG Strategy

HMG Strategy is the world's leading digital platform for connecting technology executives to reimagine the enterprise and reshape the business world. Our regional and virtual CIO and CISO Executive Leadership Series, authored books, and Digital Resource Center deliver unique, peer-driven research from CIOs, CISOs, CTOs and technology executives on leadership, innovation, transformation, and career ascent.

The HMG Strategy global network consists of over 400,000 senior IT executives, industry experts and world-class thought leaders.

Tom Hoffman
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TomHoffman@hmgstrategy.com

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